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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-14
The MARKETS.

CHICAGO. June 10
QuoafHtions uu 'ha board Of trade to day were
rs follows Wheat-No > June, opened and
closed 92lsc; July. opened, S3I4c. closed S5a4@
s35sc; August, opened SOLE closed 1850. Corn
No. . June. opened S71sc closed 371sc nominal;
July opened and closed 3S1sc; August opened
and closed 39l4c Oats-No. June; opened
and closed 25c; July, opened 255sc closed &c;
August, opened 2lssc closed 25c. Pork-June,
opened and closed So ~ Iard-June, opened
81 62t6 closed S6G21@ nominal
Live stock-From the Union stock yards the fol
ing prices are received, Hogs Market opened
active and at Saturdays prices, hut later was
weak and lower: light grades, 81 G06.5o0; rough
packing s. 656i { W; heavy packing and shipping
lots 81 a06nl N Cath. Weak; 1o6l15c lower;
beevps. 81 GOA s.. COWS. - O06l3 p: stockers
s. 25Ge3GN Sheep Strong; common, S2.i5M3.5o
good. SiNGiNo
rr,slnce: Buttrr-Fancy Elgin creamery, 1Gd
lie per h; cholr. to fancy dairy, 12Glic; fresh
packing ad9I5c Eggs Strictly fresh, 14Ga14lec
per doz Poultry Hens. re per ID; ROSTERS, &c;
spriug chickens 81 i0q.3 % per doz, according to
size Potatoes BIrhanks and early rose. coca
81 M per htI in car lots track. Berries
Strawberries Michigan. 5A6u.e per II qt case;
Ohio, 81 00dl2m FER - IT. case; blackberrieS
S. 0ndta 20 per Il qt c.IS', red raspbnrries, SIS
,r.t Il ut cas-.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-14
Nervous DcpiIi,ated Men.

Refined families are said to be draw
ing The line at paper covered novels.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-14
z PER CENT MORTGAGES

Improved Iowa Farms. Security 8 to times the
loan, and inspected in each case. Completed
loans always on hand for sale. Sizes Of loans
$500 to $4,000. Time of loans years. Only
choicest loans handled References and details
given on application either in person or letter.
Il. NJ. HENLEY, Attorney at Law
2l4 Main St. Davenport, Iowa
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Cat FurS.

It is estimated that not less than 9, OOO,-
600 kittens are annually brought into this
sinful world. Of these the great majority
arc miscrably drowncd-a practice which
is destined shortly to be done away with
bv a recognition of the cat as a fur-bearing
animal. Rugs of selected Maltese and
tortoise shell arc already quite expensive,
and excellent limitations of various furs
are made in this material. Taxidcrmsts,
too, are advertising for kittens by the
thousand to stuff for ornamental pur-
poses. At present the only purpose to
which they are applied in this country is
the manufacture of carriage robes, but
vast numbers of them are sent to Europe,
where they are in great demand for coats
and hats, dressing-gown Innings ana
other garments.
The pelts come from all parts OF the
country. They are gathered by pro-
feSsional collectors, who supply them by
the quantity at regular scheduled rates.
A common cat skin is worth cents,
pure Maltese 10 cents and black one 25
cents. The cheap kind must be dyed
before making up, but the black and
Maltese are pretticr with their color un-
adulterated. A carriage robe of the
best cat fur is worth from $40 to $50.
There are always plenty of stray cats run
ming wild in the rural district. The
Maine woods are full of them. They
breed wonderfully fast, and it is good
sport popping them off the fences and
stone walls along the roadside.-Boston
Post.
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Friendly Hawks and Owls.

A correspondent of the New York
TrUune writes as follows: 1t is esti-
mated that about 100000 has already
been paid from Pennsylvania county
treasures under the act of the Legisla-
ture of June %, 1885, awarding pre-
miums for the destruction of hawks,
owls, etc. The Microscopical Society of
West Chester took great pains to examine
scores and hundreds of the different
species of these birds, brought for the
reward or otherwise obtained, and the
result of DR.. b. H. Warren's assiduous
examination was that of five species of
hawks taken in Chester county, and of
three others, only two small kinds, the
coopers and the sharp-shinned, con-
tanned any remains of chickens, while all
had eaten chiefly field mice, grass
hoppers, etc.
The scrcech. owl or ban-owl is eX-
empted from destruction by the law, and
all the other owls feed on mice, beetles,
sparrows, etc., only that the great horned
owl and the barred owl sometimes take
chickens. All are shown to be ia: more
beneficial than injurious to the farmer,
the hawks serving him by day and the
owls by night The opinions of leading
ornithologists all over the country, many
of them in State or National service, and
with regulations at stake, unite In assent
and warm approval of the strenuous and
laudable efforts of the West Chester
society to secure the repeal of the ILL
advised act.
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Ben Holiday and the Stage Robbers.

"Ben Holiday used to enjoy telling the
story of one of his adventures" said
Luke Voorhees,, of Laramie, speaking of
the dead pioneer. "Along about '63 Ben
and his wife were together making the
trip in a special coach from Cali
forrnia. They had about $40, 900 ingold
of their own money hidden in the coach.
Out here at Rock Creek the coach was
held up by two stage robbers. Ben was
invited to step out and ordered to hold
up his hands. Of course he did so.
Ben wore big. mustauche, and some of
obstreperous hairs crawling up the side
of his nose tickled him so that he was
soon in tortures.
"Great Scott" said Ben, with his
hands above his head, won't you let me
scratch my nose9"
"Keep your hands in the air said one
of the robbers, significantly glancing
along his double barrcled shotgun,
which had both hammers raised. IF
you want your nose scratched so bad I'll
scatch it for you With that he showed
the shotgun urdcr Ben's nose and rub
bed it so vigorously that the tickle soon
disappeared. The robbers did not get
Ben's big lot of gold, but took his watch
and whatever money he and his wife
carried about them.
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What New York Drinks.

Under ordinary circumstances New
York manages to consume daily about
$40, 900 gallons of ale and beer, and
some days the grand total must show up
something like 100000 gallons. New
York disposcs of 12, 600 gallons Of brandy,
whiskics and other distilled liquor per
day. During July and August the aver
age falls down to between 5000 and 10,-
600. With this falling off there is a
proportionate increase of non-intoxicants.
About $4,000 quarts Of iced milk are
drank in New York and Brooklyn per
diem. As to the business done in soda
water it is something enormous. At
Hudnut's, on Broadway, 5000 glasses
are handed over the counter every day.
At other points on Broadway, which
need not be mentioned, the sales range
all the way from 1900 to $500 glasses.
At one establishment on Park Row, the
small room is crowded constantly BY
patrons Of vanilla and lemon.-Mv .Yora
L(t,Cr
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Wages in 1900.

In the great cities unskilled workmen
were hired by the day, bought their own
food and found their own lodgings. But
in the country, on the farms, or wherever
a hand was employed on some public
work, they were fed and lodged by the
employer and given few dollars a
month. On the Pennsylvania canals the
diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed
in the rudest sheds, and paid So month
from May to November, and So month
from November to May. Hod carriers
and mortar mixers, diggers and chop
pers, who, from 1888 TO 1900, labored
on the public buildings and cut the
streets and avenues of Washington City,
received $40 year, or, if they wished,
$50 for all the work they could perform
from March / to December 20. The
hours of work were invariably from sum
rise to sunset. Wages at Albany and
New York were shillings, or, as money
then went, 40 cents day; at Lancaster,
$S to $40 month; elsewhere in Penn
sylvania workmcn were content with S6
in summer and IS in winter. At Bait
more men were glad to be hired at Is
pence O day. None, by the month,
asked for more than SO. At Fredericks-
burg the price of labor was from $5 to
81. In Virginia white men employed by
the year were given e16 currency; slaves,
when hired, were clothed and their
masters paid 81 a month. A pound
Virginia money was, in Federal money,
1888. The average rate of wages the
land over was, therefore, $65 a year, with
food, and, perhaps, lodging. Out of
this small sum the workman must, with
his wife's help, maintain his family
McMtlster's History.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

There have been 267 Popes of the
Church of Rome.
Bread was first made with yeast by the
English about 1850.
Athclstan, in 92s, first established
uniform coin England.
Shakspeare's life and works have
called forth comment to the extent OF
10, 900 varied volumes.
The Chinese inoculatcd for smallpox
100 B. G. DR.. Jennner made the first
experiment in vaccination in May, 1876.
The highest silver deposit in the world
is on King Solomons mountain, IN Colo
RADIO, fourteen thousand feet above the
Pacific Ocean.
At feasts, three centuries ago, every
guest brought his knife, and milestone
was placed behind the door, upon which
he sharpened his knife as he entered.
Smoothing-irons are of late invention.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth and
James I. very large stones, inscribed with
texts of scripture, were used for the pur-
pose.
The admitted history of China began
in 1922 B. c., and the Chinese claim
twenty-five Gynastics of emperors, two
of them, Hia and chang, before the age
of Samuel.
1t is estimated that COO insects day
are destroyed by pair of wrens. They
have been observed to leave their nests
and return with insects from forty to
sixty times an hour.
The SOL for house pants should re-
ceive attention, as medical men have
found that ma!arial fever is propagated
among occupants of rooms containing
pots of malarious earth.
Turnpike roads were first established
in England during the reign OF Queen
Anne, and were so called from poles or
bar, swung on staple, and turned either
way when dues were paid.
In 1864 a Dutchman named William
Boomer brought the First coach into
England, and, it is said, the sight of it
put both horses and men into amaZemcnt.
Some slid it was q crab shell, brought
out of China, and some imagined it to
be one of the pagan temples in which
the cannibals adore,l the devil.
In the early age of Rome women were
prohibited from using wine, ard hence
their near relations were allowed to sa-
lutte them with kiss, in order that they
might ascertain by the sense OF smell if
they had been drinking it. Trey were
so fond of it, however, that Romulus,
the first King, made law that hus-
band might Kill his wife for drinking.
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POSTPONED His Wedding.

Heating by electricity is one of the
great problems of the day, and the Phil
adclphia Press relates how it caused the
great wizard Of Menlo Park to even post
pone his wedding and forget his wife:
Edison told me recently that he took it
up regularly about once month and
worked at it for several days, at the end
of which time he seemed to run against
stone wall, so to speak, and all hope OF
achieving a result disappeared. That
was the problem which caused him to
postpone his wedding trip forty-e!ght
hours. On the day he was married to his
first wife, some ten years ago, his car
riage had to pass his laboratory on the
way from the church to the railway sta
ton. An idea had come to him in
church, and the temptation to test it was
too strong. He got out at the laboratory,
promising to ovcrtake his bride at the
station. That was the last she saw OF him
for two days. Once at work, he was OBJ
livious to everything, and he would have
gone without food had his assistants not
yivcn him crackers.
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The Poison in Ice Cream.

The Journnl Of Analyticat Chemistry,
edited by Edward Hart, professor of
analytical chemistry of Lafayette College,
contains an article by Professor Victor
G. Vaughan upon tyrotoxicon, the
poisonous substance sometimes found in
ice cream. This substance was dis
covered by Professor Vaughan about
year ago, and he has since spent great
deal of time in examining it. He has
discovered that tyrotoXicOn is identical
with diazo-benzol, asubstancc which has
been known for many years, and which
was first prepared from aniline by Peter
CRIES.. Il German chemist. The poison
is caused by Il peculiar fermentation of
the cream before it is frozen, and it can
be separated from the cream by treat
mcnt with soda and then with ether,
which dissolvcs the poison. An important
point brought out by Professor Vaughan's
researches is that the poison is entirely
destroyed by boiling the ice cream mix
turc before it is frozen.
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What Mexican Farmers Raise.

Between San Juan del Rio and Quere-
taro the Mexican Central traverses the
fields of one Mexican farmer who raises
10000 bushels of wheat year. There
are six or seven haciendas in the same
locality where the crops reach 10000
bushels; and 10000 bushels of wheat
means 10000 bushels of corn, 1000
bushels of peas, and G,OOO bushels of
beans on the same hacienda. That is the
way the Mexican farmer of this part of
the country diversities his crops. He raises
wheat. corn, beans, and peas in about
the proportion given. Occasionally there
is a specialist like the farmer near
Queretaro who goes into the raising OF
chile, the hot peppers of this country.
This man usually has 60, 900 chile plants
or vines. s.-Gobe- Democrat.
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Longevity In America.

If there were not in every community
one or more spared monuments in the
form of persons who have reached full
ness of years, the conclusion would be
that our eager civilization was too much
for any reasonable expectancy of attain
ing a venerable age.
The feverish activity of this genera
ton, the race for place and wealth, the
impaticnce with delay, the readiness to
sacrifice health maXims, in orlcr to take
a short cut to success, make a prophecy
that these swift-paced individuals reach
old age an exceedingly vcnturcsome pre-
dicti0n. Probably if young men about
deciding on calling should consult a
doctor for advice us to the vocation most
conducive to longevity, their graves
would not open as early. but what about
their wofk2 No doubt if any of the men
and women over eighty now living in
New England were asked their recipe for
attaining old age their answer would be,
in part: Work as hard as you can, and
think as little as possible of breaking
down. n.-Boston Adcerttser.
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lIIHA1
AIS
YOU?

Do you feel dull. languid, low-spirited,. life
less, and indescribably miserable, both physi-
cally and mentally; experience sense of
fullness or blosting after = eating or & or gone gone
ing. tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in
mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent
headaches blurred eyesight, floating specks"
before the eyes. nervous prostration or eH-
haustion, irritability of temper. hot fushes,
alternating with chilly sensations, sharp,
biting. transient pains here and there, cold
feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or
disturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant,
indescribable feeling Of dread, or Of impend-
ing calamity?
IF you have all, or any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering from
that most common Of American malades-
Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Tie more
complicated your disease has become, the
toms. No matter what stage il. has reached,
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will subdue II, IL taken according to Gircc-
tions for reasonable length Of time. II not
cured, complications multiply and Consump-
ton Of the Lungs. Skin Diseases, Heart Disease,
Rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave
maladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner
or later, induce fatal termination.
DIR. Pterce's Golden Medical DIS:
covery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood purifying organ,
purities from whatever cause arising. It Is
equally eficacious in acting upon the Kid
neys, and other eIcretory organs, cleansing,
strengthening, and healing their diseases. AS
digestion and nutrition. thereby building up
both flesh and strength. In malarial districts,
this wonderful medicine has gained great
celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chils and
Fever, Dumb Ague. and kindred diseases.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
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How News of Hanging Was Sent
Out of the New York TOmbs.

When anybody in New York does
anything that entities him to publicity
he very soon gains an idea of the i'm
mensity of that engine of human progress
the newspaper. More than forty re,
porters will bcsiege him, and his life will
lie made burden until he ceases to be of
public interest. One of the most striking
recent cases illustrating newspaper en-
terprise in the Metropolis was witnessed
at the hanging of the murderer, Peter
Smith. A New York afternoon paper
had arranged to publish an extra as soon
as the doomed man had been hanged:
The execution took place in the yard OF
the Tombs. In accordance with the
statute only twelve reporters were ad-
mittcd to witness the hanging, and they
were given ingrcss to the prison en-.
closure only as members of the jury OF
inspectors. They had to remain until the
execution had taken place, and then sign
their names to the certificate averring
that the criminal had been duly and thor
oughly hanged. Not until each reporter
had signed this document was he per-
mlttcd to leave the Jail yard, and 1t was
fully twenty minutes before the forms OF
the law had been complicl with.
The representative of an evening paper,
forcsecing this delay, arranged in a unique
manner to send the news OF the execution
to his journal. He purchased big base
ball, which he carried in his pocket
within the high walled inclosure OF the
Tombs. By prcconcerted arrangement
at the office a boy stood outside the In
closure, having been warned that as soon
as he should see the btll come over the
wall he should note the time and run to
the office of the paper, five blocks away,
and carry the news, thus enabling his
PAPER to get out an early extra edition
announcing the execution. The boy stood
outside the high walls that surround the
Tombs, and never turned his eyes frJm
the point where he had been informed
the ball would be tossed over. The Ill
slant that Smith was hanged the repre-
sentative of the paper, whose boy stood
outside the prison wall, dashed away
from the galows and hurled the ball over
the Tonlbs wall. The boy, seeing the ball
come over, noted the time, ran to the office,
and gave the news. Within five minutes
after the murderer had been hanged
an extra edition of the paper in question,
announcing his death, was being sold on
the streets. The boy who had taken the
news to the Office had not stopped TO
pick up the baseball thrown over the wall
by the reporter, and "a dozen lads Of the
crowd of boys who play about the Tombs
walls, dartel forward and seized the
ball.-Amos j. Cummings.
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A Cats Fight With Sparrows.

A stray tabby strolled into the resi-
dence of Mrs. Captain H. H. Drown a
few weeks ago, and at once made
arrangements to stay permanently. A
number of sparrows have long been In
the habit of nesting under the caves OF
the Methodist Book Concern and IN the
rear of the c., H. and D. offices and on
the roof Sunderbruch's floral estab-
lishment on West Fourth street, which
overlooks Mrs. browns backyard.
Crumbs of bread were thrown out,
and the inquisitive sparrows were not
long in learning the fact. Yesterday
pussy made up her mind that sparrows
were good to eat, and squatting close on
the brick pavement watched the chirp-
ing, fighting fellows as they gobbled up
the bread crumbs. She selected fat one
and pounced on it with spring. The
flock all arose few feet in the air, and
then, as if recognizing the fact that one
of their number was attacked, all
circled and pounced on the cats back.
Then the circus began. The cat scratched,
bit, jumped and paved. Her back was
black with the chirping, fighting, pick
ing nuisances. The noise they made
aroused a Scotch terrier, which rushed
out of a dry goods box and barked
vociferously. The cat few at him and
scratched him severely in the right eye.
The sparrows chirped and few, and the
cat struck right and left, and at last lay
down and rolled over, crushing several
with the rapidity of her motions, and
tearing the feathers off from score or
more as they flew about her head. At
last they few away, and tabby quietly
mouthed her bird and marched into the
front parlor, purring with conscious
pride, while the yard was strewn with
feathers enough for good-sized bed
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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BY the Murmuring Stream.

Two children loitered by O murmuring
stream
That hurled briskly onward toward the sea,
And dreamed as even children oft will
dream
Was it of life,
Its joys and strife2
Well, not to any dangerous degree.
\ moment thus they stood upon the bank,
Gazed wistfully in the cool depths l,elow;
A strip-a plunge-two shouting urchins sank
Beneath the tide
Their hair they dried,
And later vowed they swimming did not go.
-Binghamtoa, ~. ~ Republican.
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Excffpnl anf.

Moxie bids fair to create as extended an ex-
citement through the country as the discovery
of the telephone. Its extreme harmless sim
plicity and extraordinary power over the liquor
habit, and nervous exhaustion in weakly wo-
men, are enough to make anything so. 1t seems
to cover a field medicine, tonics, and stimu-
lants cannot reach, while it readily recoyers
from their abuses at once, seeming to act like
q food, as it creates no reaction, nor loses Its
effect. Its sale is marvellous. Druggists all
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"XNhnt "a Woman's Worths"

Asked fair damsel Of a crusty old bachelor,
double you, o mani. But woman feels worth
little il disease has invaded her system and is
daily sapping her strength. For all female
weaknesses, DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip.
ton" stands unrivaled. 1t cures the complaint
and builds up the system. Send 10 cents in
stamps for pamphlet to Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 683 Main Street, Buffalo,
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IInhannY Fate.

When nights dark curtains upward rolled
Show Sol arising in his pride;
When fair Aurora, robed in gold,
Trips down the misty mountains side;
When still in slumber's stepped our sense
And peaceful rest our couch o'erspreads,
Our neighbor's hens fly DER our fence,
And ruin all our garden beds
-Bosfou Eourier
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Ten years ago there were $500 men
practising as physicians in Illinois with
out diplomas; to-day there are but 476.
This healthy condition is due to the med
ical practice act of 1877.
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THE Constitution of Costa Rica prescribes
hospitality as q sacred duty, and declares citi-
zenship to be forfeited by ingratitude to par,
ents, the abandonment of wife or children and
neelect of any obligations due the family.
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and Wemmer worked together for some
time but later they quarreled about dl'
vision of some sort, and separated. Wem-
mer gave up mining, and started store
at COloma.